Welcome to North Korea!
Director Linda Jablonska
Countries
Duration 76 min
Synopsis
In its catalogue, a Czech travel agency offers a tour of North Korea. The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a country which cultivates a cult of personality, maintains concentration camps and doesn’t hide its development of nuclear weapons. Foreign visitors are only allowed to view a carefully prepared illusion, thoroughly supervised by “guides”. Moreover, the North Korean system is starkly reminiscent of the Czechs' own past. How does someone, after being accustomed to freedom and democracy, come to terms with the directives and restrictions of a totalitarian system?
In its catalogue, a Czech travel agency offers a tour of North Korea. The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a country which cultivates a cult of personality, maintains concentration camps and doesn’t hide its development of nuclear weapons. Foreign visitors are only allowed to view a carefully prepared illusion, thoroughly supervised by “guides”. Moreover, the North Korean system is starkly reminiscent of the Czechs' own past. How does someone, after being accustomed to freedom and democracy, come to terms with the directives and restrictions of a totalitarian system?